(August 18, 2016 at 5:49 pm)Thena323 Wrote:(August 18, 2016 at 5:22 pm)RobertE Wrote: You called me a racist without knowing me. Does it matter what colour skin I have, I am an immigrant. I wasn't born here. How about you Thena, you born in the US of A?
I think you're a racist because because of the words you've chosen to post. I don't care if you're an immigrant or not; that has little to no bearing on one's capacity for fear, general disdain, or feelings of smug superiority.
Frankly, it's none of you business where I was born. More importantly, it's not relevant to the conversation at hand.
I reject your claim that your immigrant status somehow makes you an authority on issues surrounding the OP.
Sorry.
I think YOU are the racist, and others besides you. You are, along with others here are clearly narrow-minded and only see two colours, black and white, anything in between doesn't exist and this goes for the media too. You are not capable of seeing nuances. It is a good job you don't use photoshop. There are blacks who don't want to talk about racism anymore simply because they want to get on with their lives, just like other races do. Guess, what, they do get on with their lives, yes, they know racism exists, but as long as they are successful, they don't care or wish to know anymore about racism. I believe you have an expression for these people, "Uncle Tom." This is a crude word, and it shouldn't exist should a black person or any other race want to be successful in their work. The difference between me and you is that, I liked Martin Luther King, Arthur Ashe, Sammy Davis Junior, Miles Davis etc etc, simply because they worked hard to get where they were in spite of the racism they faced(which is worse than today), it pushed them to work hard to be successful. If only a few from Compton would take a leaf out of their books, and stop blaming society for not having a chance in life because believe it or not, they do have that chance from birth i.e. going to Kindergarten etc, but then they choose to go another path simply because of peer pressure or street cred. I have the same opinion for those in England, the chav population (majority are white) who just drink, who are just anti-social and display typical yobbish behaviour.